> The provider charged $6 an hour if you were accessing it from a 300-baud modem or $12 an hour for a 1200-baud modem.…What made it more expensive is that there was a significant time lag between the players and the game. Island of Kesmai processed a user command every 10 seconds, which meant that for every command given, you were paying $0.016 in game time.

Wow, did you recall paying to play?